By Derek Mwale When most people imagine opportunity in Zambia, they imagine movement. Fast movement. Traffic. Buildings. Noise. Crowded streets. Expensive cafés. Endless minibuses. Everybody trying to become somebody at the same time. The national imagination is heavily concentrated around big cities like Lusaka, Ndola, Kitwe, and Livingstone. These places dominate conversations about business, culture, and the future. Meanwhile,
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By Derek Mwale When people talk about Zambia’s most important towns, the conversation usually revolves around Lusaka, Ndola, Kitwe, Livingstone, maybe Solwezi if mining money enters the discussion. Choma rarely gets mentioned with the same energy. It exists quietly in the background of national conversations — calm, agricultural, slow-moving to outsiders. But that silence hides something powerful. Because
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By Derek Mwale Everybody talks about Victoria Falls. Everybody posts the same safari photos. Everybody acts like Zambia begins and ends in Livingstone. But Zambia is deeper than postcards and drone shots. This country has places that feel untouched by time. Places where the roads become stories. Places where silence feels spiritual. Places where the sunsets look illegal. Places tourists
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By Derek Mwale There’s something you notice almost immediately when you spend time in Zambia—not as a tourist rushing between destinations, but as someone paying attention to the rhythm of everyday life. It’s not loud. Not chaotic. Not tense. It’s calm. And what makes that calm even more interesting is this: Zambia is deeply religious. Churches are everywhere. Faith is not hidden—it’s
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